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KISSDETROIT – Fantasia opened her set at the 2011 Essence Music Festival at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana with a bold statement “F*** It”. Watch the video below for her message to the critics as well as a tribute to Prince.

Trey Songz was one of many artist at the Essence Music Festival who covered their favorite throwbacks and giving tribute to those who paved the way. One of Trey’s cover tracks of the night was ‘Freak’n You’ by Jodeci. ‘Freak’n You was one of the groups hottest record from their last album together, The Show, […]

105.9 kiss-fm – Usher closed down the show of day one at the 2011 Essence Music Festival at the Louisiana Superdome on July 1, 2011 in New Orleans, Louisiana. While performing “Lil Freak”, from his sixth studio album Raymond v. Raymond, he tells the Essence crowd “I hope you don’t mind if I get a […]

Tyrese Gibson is having a great year with releasing his first book “How To Get Out of Your Own Way,” which is a best seller and starred in two blockbuster movies “Fast Five” and “Transformers 3.” He hit up Power 105.1′ “The Breakfast Club” Morning Show to talk about how he doesn’t like being labeled […]

Oh boy! I don’t know what you’re gonna do with no NFL or NBA! Add the NBA to the list of lockouts! NBA owners informed the players union that they would be locked out when the CBA expired at midnight Thursday. The two sides negotiated for three hours Thursday, but were nowhere near a deal on […]

HOTHIPHOPDETROIT – You can tell Trey Songz set at the Essence Music Festival was all fun and games as he flipped his traditional hits with blending in snippets of other hits. It was kind of like rough foreplay: all over the place but you like where it is going. Check out the video below as […]

HOTHIPHOPDETROIT – Trey Song was on fire during his performance at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans covering and remixing his records with many other artists hits. He killed his remix to Kelly Roland’s “Motivation”. SOURCE: @ITSYAGIRLAC ALL ACCESS PASS Kyte.Embed.path=”http://media.kyte.tv”;Kyte.Embed.altpath=”http://www.kyte.tv”;window.kyteplayer=new Kyte.Player(“”,{appKey:”default”,width:416,height:312,p:”1763″,s:1400790,tbid:”381″}); MORE ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL COVERAGE: Pregnant Or Not Fantasia Says “F*** It” […]

Kanye West stole the show during the Essence Music Festival closing down day two of the three day event. Many concert goers told AC of HOT 102.7 that Kanye could have had a whole day alone and that it was the best show they had ever seen. During Kanye’s show he stopped his music to […]

KISSDETROIT – A stunning Jill Scott hit the Essence Music Festival stage in New Orleans. Jill brought along her close friend Anthony Hamilton to join her as they sang their newest single “So In Love”. Anthony Hamilton will also be joining Jill Scott on Budweiser’s ‘Jill Scott Block Party’ along with Mint Condition, DJ Jazzy […]

KISSDETROIT – A very toned Jennifer Hudson brought out former American Idol Contestant George Huff at the 2011 Essence Music Festival at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana to sing “I’ll Be There” originally by the Jackson 5. George Huff was the fifth-place finalist on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American […]

Only a few short days after Drake released his official video to ‘Marvin’s Room’, Teyana Taylor has released a video for her response titled, “Her Room”.

Rumor has it that the highly aniticipated collaborative album from Kanye West and Jay-z will be releasing digitally on July 4th to avoid any leaks.